Tropescilloscope: Mistaken for Gay

A character or a duo are mistaken to be homosexual by other people. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Morality Pet Lock and Load Montage Shirtless Scene Dies Wide Open Those Wacky Nazis Artistic License – Gun Safety Small Name, Big Ego Auto Erotica Gone Horribly Right Aluminum Christmas Trees Laughing Mad Instant Death Bullet Shell-Shocked Veteran Curse Cut Short Fish out of Water The Lost Lenore N-Word Privileges Improbable Weapon User Take That! Chekhov's Gunman Get Out! Stalker with a Crush Didn't Think This Through Improvised Weapon The Place Darkest Hour Suspiciously Similar Substitute Important Haircut Men Are the Expendable Gender Not Quite Dead The Power of Love Depraved Bisexual Captain Obvious Bowdlerise Meaningful Background Event Blackmail Dirty Coward Dissonant Serenity Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? There Is No Kill Like Overkill Historical-Domain Character Fate Worse than Death This Is Gonna Suck Ironic Echo Mooks Off with His Head! Dramatic Gun Cock Vacation Films Scenery Porn Determinator aka: The Determinator Silence Is Golden Beard of Evil Canon Foreigner Fan Disservice Playing Gertrude Freeze-Frame Bonus Dutch Angle The Alcoholic Translation Convention Shown Their Work Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Put on a Bus Bad "Bad Acting" Heroes Want Redheads The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The '50s Epic Movie Soft Glass Affectionate Parody Break the Haughty Deconstruction Smug Snake Historical Hero Upgrade Kill It with Fire Death Seeker Camp Gay Death of a Child Author Appeal Running Gag Match Cut Only Sane Man Ominous Latin Chanting Arranged Marriage I Did What I Had to Do Arch-Enemy Bi the Way Adaptation Name Change Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Film Series Victoria's Secret Compartment Race Lift Wretched Hive Cowboy Cop Bound and Gagged No-Sell Sinister Minister The Atoner Call-Back Took a Level in Badass Only a Flesh Wound Disney Death Evil Plan And the Adventure Continues Reality Has No Subtitles Overprotective Dad Romantic Comedy Facial Horror Badass Boast Re-Cut Hope Spot Children Are Innocent Sequel Hook More Dakka Film Noir Cat Fight Spiritual Successor Adults Are Useless No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Greater-Scope Villain Off-into-the-Distance Ending Manchild Took a Level in Jerkass Composite Character Flashback Destination Defenestration An Aesop Kubrick Stare For Want of a Nail Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Non-Indicative Name Final Girl Death by Irony Shoot the Shaggy Dog Posthumous Character Bury Your Gays The '80s The Chessmaster Implacable Man Superhero Humans Are Bastards Cat Scare Horror Comedy Villain Song The Hero Immune to Bullets Vampire Fiction Love Triangle Eldritch Abomination Award-Bait Song Betty and Veronica Jerkass True Companions Disguised in Drag Public Domain Feature Films Action Genre Fourth Date Marriage Guns Akimbo Drugs Are Bad Mystery and Detective Films Light Is Not Good Oh, Crap! Mr. Fanservice Intrepid Reporter Driven to Suicide Failed a Spot Check Chase Scene Room Full of Crazy Book-Ends Recycled IN SPACE! Artistic License – History Big-Bad Ensemble He Who Fights Monsters Broken Aesop Not Using the "Z" Word Narrator Groin Attack Sadistic Choice Hypocrite Eureka Moment 20 Minutes into the Future Demonic Possession Would Hit a Girl Whole Plot Reference Adaptation Expansion Nice Guy Amoral Attorney Beware the Nice Ones I Have Your Wife Ambiguous Disorder Foreshadowing Flipping the Bird Dark and Troubled Past Sci-Fi Horror Obstructive Bureaucrat Berserk Button Real Life Kill 'em All Creepy Child Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Actually Pretty Funny folderlabel Sacrificial Lion The End... Or Is It? Brick Joke Combat Pragmatist Same Language Dub Wrong Genre Savvy Damsel in Distress Fatal Flaw Visual Pun Kick the Dog Henpecked Husband Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Fiery Redhead Smoking Is Cool Knife Nut Badass Grandpa Suddenly SHOUTING! Big Applesauce Agony of the Feet Stepford Smiler Calling the Old Man Out Be Careful What You Wish For Does Not Like Shoes Insane Troll Logic Hell Is That Noise Belligerent Sexual Tension Police Brutality Nice Hat Card-Carrying Villain The Dog Bites Back Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Evil Is Petty Meaningful Echo Karmic Death Mistaken for Gay Manic Pixie Dream Girl Rousing Speech Bittersweet Ending Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chiaroscuro Evil Brit Dying Moment of Awesome Here We Go Again! Eyepatch of Power Dual Wielding And I Must Scream Our Vampires Are Different Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adaptation Dye-Job Fainting Slap-Slap-Kiss Black Best Friend Drill Sergeant Nasty Have a Gay Old Time Heterosexual Life-Partners Cold-Blooded Torture It's All About Me Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Call-Forward Maybe Ever After Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Lancer Alpha Bitch Adaptational Badass Show Within a Show Sequel Escalation Malevolent Masked Men Well-Intentioned Extremist Riddle for the Ages Sexy Discretion Shot I'm a Humanitarian And Starring Black and Gray Morality Roaring Rampage of Revenge Motor Mouth World of Ham Offscreen Teleportation Fun with Acronyms The Smurfette Principle Almost Kiss Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Punny Name The Smart Guy Knight Templar Improbable Aiming Skills Never Trust a Trailer Tagline Dark Reprise Black Comedy Rape Even Evil Has Loved Ones Alliterative Name Villain Protagonist Wham Shot Advertised Extra Parental Incest Boom, Headshot! Epic Fail Age Lift Framing Device Only in It for the Money Better to Die than Be Killed British Films Chekhov's Gun Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Scary Black Man Antagonist Title Self-Deprecation Military and Warfare Films Closed Circle No Celebrities Were Harmed No Ending Dumb Blonde Camera Abuse Evil Laugh Silent Movie It Will Never Catch On Horror Films Spanner in the Works Black Comedy Big Bad Genre Throwback Famous Last Words Deliberate Values Dissonance "Awesome McCool" Name Only Known by Their Nickname Jerk with a Heart of Gold Stock Footage Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Badass in a Nice Suit Russian Films Kick the Son of a Bitch Cain and Abel Beauty Is Never Tarnished Last-Name Basis Hate Sink Villain with Good Publicity "The Reason You Suck" Speech Naked People Are Funny Needs Wiki Magic Love Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Insult Backfire Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Abhorrent Admirer The Ditz Rule of Symbolism Sassy Black Woman Never My Fault Really Gets Around Crapsack World Logo Joke Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Crucified Hero Shot The Sociopath Interrupted Suicide Mind Screw The X of Y Only One Name Parental Substitute Science Fiction Films Double-Meaning Title Curb-Stomp Battle Love at First Sight A Date with Rosie Palms Ungrateful Bastard Green-Eyed Monster Happily Married Imagine Spot timeperiod Corpsing You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Un-Reveal Psychological Thriller The Film of the Book Never Found the Body Fanservice Extra Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Did Not Get the Girl Stuff Blowing Up Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Truth in Television Paper-Thin Disguise Country Matters Five-Man Band The Vamp The Mafia Big "NO!" Fire-Forged Friends Adaptational Heroism Those Two Bad Guys Slashed Throat The Faceless Annoying Younger Sibling Tap on the Head Ass Shove Line-of-Sight Name Dirty Old Man Villain Opening Scene B-Movie Dramedy Rape as Drama Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Babies Ever After Ship Tease Chekhov's Skill Sanity Slippage Ascended Extra Funny Foreigner Random Events Plot Rule of Funny Unusual Euphemism Not So Stoic An Axe to Grind Gorn Animal Title Index Very Loosely Based on a True Story Vomit Indiscretion Shot Evil Sounds Deep Slasher Smile Becoming the Mask Film Noir Index Death Glare Dramatic Irony All Girls Want Bad Boys Cool Old Lady Bloodless Carnage Refuge in Audacity Evil-Detecting Dog Heroic Sacrifice Cool Car Anti-Villain It's Personal Suspiciously Specific Denial Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Hollywood Darkness The Ghost Blood from the Mouth Ax-Crazy Kids Are Cruel Reckless Gun Usage La Résistance Christmas Movies Index Mad Scientist The Voiceless Bloody Hilarious Not So Different Action Girl Historical Villain Upgrade Disney Villain Death Bar Brawl Bland-Name Product Novelization Easily Forgiven The '60s Tempting Fate Cluster F-Bomb Retcon Too Dumb to Live Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Taking You with Me Back from the Dead Face–Heel Turn Evil vs. Evil Air-Vent Passageway Bald of Evil The Quiet One Pimped-Out Dress Drives Like Crazy Awesome, but Impractical Animated Credits Opening Serious Business Everyone Has Standards From Bad to Worse Bavarian Fire Drill The Ace Attempted Rape Punch-Clock Villain Ambiguous Ending Rated M for Manly Catch-Phrase Cool Shades Retirony Ambiguously Gay The '70s Killed Mid-Sentence Faux Affably Evil Gory Discretion Shot Noodle Incident Product Placement Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stealth Pun "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue A Father to His Men Pay Evil unto Evil Foil Butt-Monkey Developing Doomed Characters Crazy-Prepared As You Know Mr. Exposition Monumental Damage Hidden Depths Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Conspicuous CG How We Got Here Pragmatic Adaptation Naïve Newcomer Leave the Camera Running Madness Mantra Decoy Protagonist Offscreen Moment of Awesome Undying Loyalty Peek-a-Boo Corpse "Well Done, Son!" Guy Let's Get Dangerous! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Animal Motifs Sole Survivor In Name Only Deliberately Monochrome Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Plot Hole My God, What Have I Done? Vitriolic Best Buds Death by Adaptation Car Fu Badass Normal French Films Deal with the Devil Yandere Expy Fat Bastard Not Even Bothering with the Accent Action Survivor Pretty Little Headshots Gender Flip Television Movie Index Enemy Mine Spiteful Spit Laser-Guided Karma Manipulative Bastard Villain Ball Left the Background Music On Overly Long Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Friend to All Children In the Back Red Herring Demoted to Extra The Casanova Stealth Hi/Bye An Arm and a Leg Stylistic Suck The Reveal Leitmotif Beta Couple Disproportionate Retribution Male Frontal Nudity Jitter Cam Wham Line Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Face Death with Dignity Wicked Cultured Badass Longcoat The Cameo Police are Useless O.O.C. Is Serious Business Genre Shift Bolivian Army Ending Department of Redundancy Department May–December Romance Authority Equals Asskicking I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Nothing Is Scarier Adorkable NO INDOOR VOICE Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday What Happened to the Mouse? Adult Fear Deadpan Snarker Revenge Abusive Parents Broken Pedestal Comically Missing the Point Evil Is Hammy Continuity Nod The Musical Bond Villain Stupidity Cloudcuckoolander Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mugging the Monster Casting Gag Take a Third Option Hooker with a Heart of Gold Evil Counterpart Ripped from the Headlines Scare Chord Pre-Mortem One-Liner Accidental Murder Once More, with Clarity! Cruel and Unusual Death Black Dude Dies First Distracted by the Sexy Gratuitous English Hero Antagonist Credits Gag Dull Surprise Sealed Evil in a Can Affably Evil Hollywood Law Title Drop Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Plucky Comic Relief As Himself Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bunny-Ears Lawyer Establishing Character Moment Jerkass Has a Point Protagonist Title Older Than They Look Heroic BSoD Heel–Face Turn Dwindling Party The Mole From Nobody to Nightmare Based on a True Story All for Nothing Creator Cameo Bait-and-Switch Dark Is Not Evil Captain Ersatz Cool Guns Twist Ending Your Cheating Heart Italian Films Domestic Abuse Skewed Priorities Lampshade Hanging Determinator Say My Name Faking the Dead Bottomless Magazines Those Two Guys Death by Sex Villainous Breakdown Works Set in World War II Male Gaze Pyrrhic Victory I Need a Freaking Drink The Cavalry Even Evil Has Standards Heel Realization All There in the Manual Straight Gay Grievous Bottley Harm Armor-Piercing Question Star-Crossed Lovers Funny Background Event MacGuffin Blatant Lies Setting Update Red Oni, Blue Oni The Dreaded One-Man Army Made of Iron Artistic License – Biology Pretty in Mink Blood Knight Hypocritical Humor Training Montage Jump Scare What the Hell, Hero? 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Shipper on Deck He Knows Too Much Wounded Gazelle Gambit Drowning My Sorrows Zombie Stories A God Am I Adaptation Distillation Arc Words Dressing as the Enemy Word of God After the End Empathic Environment Music Stories Defiant to the End German Films Redshirt Army Fingore Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Big Bad Duumvirate Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Eiffel Tower Effect Man on Fire Adapted Out Femme Fatale Rule of Three Meaningful Name Freudian Excuse Outrun the Fireball My Beloved Smother Double Entendre Made of Explodium In Medias Res You Have Failed Me Big Damn Heroes Brother–Sister Incest